How the emerging field of progress studies is focused on low-level, downstream inputs to human progress but neglected the most upstream, enabling input—knowledge.
Aug 23, 2022·edited Aug 23, 2022Liked by Moritz Wallawitsch
This is awesome! Innovation is at the heart of progress and happiness - which is an incredibly empowering realisation, because it means that we constantly have the capacity to use creative thinking to improve our lives, with no clear restrictive ceiling.
Your point about knowledge being inversely related to fear reminds me of this Elon Musk quote:
“When I was a little kid, I was really scared of the dark. But then I came to understand, dark just means the absence of photons in the visible wavelength--400 to 700 nanometers. Then I thought, well, it's really silly to be afraid of a lack of photons. Then I wasn't afraid of the dark anymore after that.”
This is awesome! Innovation is at the heart of progress and happiness - which is an incredibly empowering realisation, because it means that we constantly have the capacity to use creative thinking to improve our lives, with no clear restrictive ceiling.
Your point about knowledge being inversely related to fear reminds me of this Elon Musk quote:
“When I was a little kid, I was really scared of the dark. But then I came to understand, dark just means the absence of photons in the visible wavelength--400 to 700 nanometers. Then I thought, well, it's really silly to be afraid of a lack of photons. Then I wasn't afraid of the dark anymore after that.”
This is a fantastic piece of writing! Thank you for sharing this! Very well articulated!